docker-compose-lemp

Docker Compose LEMP Stack, with PHP 7.4, MySQL 8.0, and Redis 6, for PHP applications especially for Laravel projects.

Before Usage

With this suite of docker orchestration files, I put a prefix before containers' name, myapp be default. In this way, all of the containers built with the compose file would come up this a myapp- in its title, for example, myapp-php and myapp-nginx, etc.

Copy .env.example to .env, and change environment keys in .env file:

• APP_NAME
• MYSQL_DATABASE
• MYSQL_USER
• MYSQL_PASSWORD
• MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD
• REDIS_PASSWORD

Start Up

With all of your services defined in your docker-compose file, you just need to issue a single command to start all of the containers, create the volumes, and set up and connect the networks:

docker-compose up -d

When you run docker-compose up for the first time, it will download all of the necessary Docker images, which might take a while. Once the images are downloaded and stored in your local machine, Compose will create your containers. The -d flag daemonizes the process, running your containers in the background.

Once the process is complete, use the following command to list all of the running containers:

docker ps

For PHP/Laravel Projects

You can use docker-compose exec to set the application key for the Laravel application, or other artison command.

docker-compose exec php php artisan key:generate
docker-compose exec php php artisan config:cache

composer, PHP dependency manager, is installed in php container, you can run docker-compose exec command to access php container, and perform dependency management using composer command.

docker-compose exec php bash

Besides, php cotainer also includes some useful tools, such as vim, git, wget, curl.

Clear Log Files

Before we push changes to Github, clear contents of log files first.

On Windows, double click clear_log.cmd and execute it.

On Linux/macOS, execute command as follows:

sh ./clear_log.sh